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HEATH HEN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Female black grouse

Synonyms:

gray hen; grayhen; grey hen; greyhen; heath hen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("heath hen" is a kind of...):

black grouse (grouse of which the male is bluish-black)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Extinct prairie chicken

Synonyms:

heath hen; Tympanuchus cupido cupido

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("heath hen" is a kind of...):

prairie chicken; prairie fowl; prairie grouse (brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies)

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